Not technical at all, I work in Learning & Development at a company. I am always reading the comments and try to learn, but sometimes I have really no clue what you guys are talking about haha!

Yesterday someone was expleaning about adblocker and all the comments were like: "Yeah, who can live without it..." Well, me I guess? And I saw one that was highly recommended so I downloaded it, because why not try it out right? But apparently it's not for your phone. Or I didn't have the right app to support it on my phone.

I was thinking about asking it in the comments of the thread, but like you said: I think a lot of people here have a tech background and although everyone is very nice, I think the explanation might go over my head.

I don't want to give people the feeling I get when I'm trying to explain to my mom over the phone how she can e-mail a file on her computer. It can be very frustrating ;)

That looks delicious! Could you tell me how this works? Just chuck everything in for a certain amount of time or cook the rice first or...?

One that always stayed with me is from a coming-of-age story:

If truth was a crayon and it was up to me to put a wrapper around it and name its color, I know just what I would call it—dinosaur skin.

• Sarah Weeks - So B. It

If you're curious, here's the rest of the first chapter which really ties the first sentence together nicely:

I used to think, without really thinking about it, that I knew what color that was. But that was a long time ago, before I knew what I know now about both dinosaur skin and the truth.

The fact is, you can’t tell squat about the color of an animal just from looking at its bones, so nobody knows for sure what color dinosaurs really were. For years I looked at pictures of them, trusting that whoever was in charge of coloring them in was doing it based on scientific fact, but the truth is they were only guessing. I realized that one afternoon, sitting in the front seat of Sheriff Roy Franklin’s squad car, the fall before I turned thirteen.

Another thing I found out right around that same time is that not knowing something doesn’t mean you’re stupid. All it means is that there’s still room left to wonder. For instance about dinosaurs—were they the same color as the sky the morning I set off for Liberty? Or were they maybe the same shade of brown as the dust my shoes kicked up on the driveway at Hilltop Home?

I’d be lying if I said that given a choice, I wouldn’t rather know than not know. But there are some things you can just know for no good reason other than that you do, and then there are other things that no matter how badly you want to know them, you just can’t.

The truth is, whether you know something or not doesn’t change what was. If dinosaurs were blue, they were blue; if they were brown, they were brown whether anybody ever knows it for a fact or not.

My husband said: how do you think this will be for the people around the person with ADHD who can teleport? One moment you're talking with them, the other moment they're gone 😂

Thanks, that's really kind :)

Did I meet those potatoes before?

Still fun to see in different languages! In Dutch the literal translation is:

♙ Pawn
♖ Tower
♔ King
♕ Lady
♗ Walker (as in: slow runner)
♘ Horse

Pion, toren, koning, dame, loper, paard.

Ah thanks! I just switched to Firefox and Duckduckgo as search engine because all the comments on privacy here on Lemmy. I will check Brave out as well!

Former (Dutch) teacher here! Diary of a wimpy kid is easy reading for a lot of kids and I always found that the really engrossing books could help them move on to their actual reading level. For my students who liked comic mischief in class, I could always get them hooked to reading with The Saga of Darren Shan.

Don't let the 'horror' genre fool you: the story is dark and funny. Based on the books you named I think your kid might love it!

Ik werd heel blij van dit artikel! Goede uitleg over de fediverse en de verschillen daarbinnen. Ben heel benieuwd naar het medium waar ze uiteindelijk mee gaan komen.

Can you expand a bit what you tell people about not liking Meta's business model? I got some people to follow me to Signal, but only for messaging with my husband and me. They don't really care for the privacy aspect, so I'm curious about your other arguments!

Thee recommendations from the Netherlands:

Casanova kept extensive memoirs and only briefly mentions Lucia, his first love. He names her as one of the few women he wronged, but offers no explanation. In Lucia's eyes by Arthur Japin tells the (fictional) story of Lucia and offers a story that fits into the gap that Casanova left in his memoires. It's one of my favorites to recommend as an introduction into literature. The Dutch title is Een schitterend gebrek.

A true Dutch classic is The Assault by Harry Mulisch. It covers 35 years in the life of the lone survivor of a night in Haarlem during World War II when the Nazi occupation forces, finding a Dutch collaborator murdered, retaliate by killing most of the family in front of whose home the body was found.

And if you really feel like sinking your teeth in some literature you would have to read The Discovery of Heaven, the magnum opus of Harry Mulisch. I can't really manage to give a summary, I think it would be best if you just start reading without any spoilers about the story. Maybe read the other books first and then decide if you trust me ;)

If you end up reading one of those, I would love to hear your thoughts!

Ik ben positief verrast! Groot fan van de Britse versie en heb destijds geprobeerd naar de Australische te kijken, maar vond dat helemaal niets. Dat kwam o.a. omdat ze de dynamiek van Greg en Alex probeerden na te bootsen, wat niet authentiek over kwam, en ze hadden ook niet altijd even leuke opdrachten.

Bij de Nederlandse hebben ze heel slim een aantal van de leukste tasks van de Britse versie overgenomen en in dit eerste seizoen verzameld. Arjen en Diederik proberen niets na te spelen en creëren hun eigen dynamiek, dat doen ze ook echt goed vind ik. Wat ook helpt, is dat het leuke kandidaten zijn die zichzelf ook niet te belangrijk of grappig vinden (zoals veel BN'ers in spelshows wel; dat denk ik tenminste want ik kijk het nooit langer dan 2 minuten en dan ben ik er klaar mee). Goede selectie dus en ik hoop dat ze dat ook voor volgende seizoenen kunnen gaan doorzetten. Ik kijk bij dit seizoen in ieder geval elke week uit naar de nieuwe aflevering!

Ik volg de berichten van de journalist in deze reis al een tijdje (Marloes de Koning). Ik las dat voor nu alleen NRC-redacteuren een account kunnen maken, maar dat je met een Mastodon-account wel mee kan praten op hun server.

Nu ben ik hier via Lemmy en ik merk dat ik niet tech-savy genoeg ben om te achterhalen of ik dan ook op de NRC-server kan kijken. Ik gebruik de app Jerboa op m'n telefoon. Ik zou de NRC-server dan ook graag willen volgen via deze app. Is er iemand die me hier meer over kan vertellen of me hierin kan helpen? Ik kan de antwoorden die ik krijg op via Google niet goed genoeg volgen om er zelf uit te komen.

I've been trying to figure out Lemmy since the black-out and I find this very helpful. Thank you!

I did it! Or something like it, I learned about DNS and I installed the AdGuard app and begun my free trial period :) Thank you!

Thank you and thank you so much for the prompt as well, you are so kind! :)

Thank you, I think you are right. The comments on my comment have been nothing but helpfull and kind. It's really encouraging for a new Lemmy-user like me!

Hi! You're not alone! I deleted Reddit as well this year and I miss the Endo subreddit... Would love to see some more activity in this community as well.

I'm a 35F from the Netherlands, so English is not my first language and my experiences with docters/hospitals might be different from your own experiences. I'm still recovering from my second endometriosis operation last june. They found a lot, even more than what was visible on the scans.

So... on Reddit I was a lurker, but as they say: be the change you wanna see! Any one else here except for calculusqu33n and me? Maybe post your age and tell us what made you visit this community? :)

Hi! Ik vind het heel leuk dat je dit initiatief neemt. Een tip van iemand waarvan de examens inmiddels al een hele lange tijd geleden zijn: als je merkt dat je alles lijkt te zijn vergeten, weet dan dat de kennis nog steeds in je hoofd zit. Je kan er alleen op dat moment even niet bij. Stop met het kijken naar je opgave en pak een punt voorbij je tafel om naar te kijken. Zet je beide voeten stevig op de grond en focus op het punt waar ze contact maken met de grond. Adem rustig in en uit door je neus. Drie tellen in en vijf a zes tellen uit (het tellen helpt je hersenen afleiden). Richt je ademhaling op je buik en voel hoe je buik uitzet en weer intrekt bij het in- en uitademen.

Als je merkt dat je weer tot rust bent gekomen, kijk dan opnieuw naar de opgave alsof je die weer voor het eerst ziet. Volg de stappen die je misschien al hebt gezet wanneer je 'm al een gedeelte hebt opgelost. Waarschijnlijk zul je merken dat je brein het vanaf dat moment weer oppakt!

Het lijkt soms zonde van de tijd om zo'n ademhalingsoefening te gaan doen, terwijl je een test hebt, maar de tijdswinst die je uiteindelijk maakt door je hersenen uit die paniekstand te halen, weegt er bijna altijd tegenop. Alvast heel veel succes!